Florence Cathedral was designed at the end of the 13th century by Arnolfo di Cambio and is dedicated to Santa Maria del Fiore, a reference to the lily, the city's symbol. The third largest cathedral [...]
The bell tower of Florence Cathedral, known as Giotto’s Campanile, was designed by the great 14th-century master. 84.7 metres tall and approximately 15 metres in breadth, it is the most eloquent [...]
The frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel (Santa Maria del Carmine) are to be considered - especially thanks to the extraordinary artistic revolution introduced by Masaccio - among the highest expressions [...]
The Marino Marini museum houses the Little Temple of the Holy Sepulchre , an interesting and unknown architectural work, placed in an outbuilding of the Convent of St. Pancrazio, later dismembered and [...]
The Augustinian complex of Santo Spirito of one of the great religious and artistic monuments of 15th century Florence. The basilica was designed by Brunelleschi and begun in 1444, but was still [...]
Remembered by Dante as “beautiful San Giovanni”, the octagonal-shaped Baptistery is one of the city’s oldest buildings; it acquired its current appearance in the 11th–12th centuries but probably dates [...]
The Church of Santa Maria Novella was the first of the great Florentine basilicas and the first large-scale Gothic building in the city. Started by the Dominicans soon after 1240; it was finished in [...]
The basilica is the main Marian shrine in Florence. It was founded in 1250 by the "Seven Saints" of the order of the Servants of Mary; with its facade, contiguous to the Brunelleschi's facade of the [...]
San Miniato al Monte, founded in 1018, is one of the most extraordinary exemples of Romanesque architecture in Tuscany, and stands on the top of a hill overlooking the city, offering a great panorama [...]
Designed by Arnolfo di Cambio (1296), it is the largest Franciscan church in the world; it is also known as the "Pantheon of Italian glories" for its illustrious tombs (Michelangelo, Galileo [...]
One of the most important Florentine Renaissance building bound up with the history of the Medici family. The basilica consacreted by Saint Ambrose in 393 and rebuilt in a Romanesque form in the 11th [...]
Located in the heart of the ancient city in front of the Bargello, it is the oldest Benedectine monastery in the city. It was founded in 978 by the mother of the Marquis Ugo of Tuscany, Willa. In 1285 [...]
The Museo di Casa Buonarroti is to all intents and purposes the temple of Michelangelo's memory. Acquired by Michelangelo Buonarroti himself around 1510, the property only became central to the [...]
Rodolfo Siviero, who succeeded in bringing back to Italy hundreds of masterpieces that had disappeared during the Second World War, bequeathed his home and art collection to the Local Government of [...]
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett arrived in Florence in 1847, when Elizabeth was already a well-established poetess. They lived in the city for fourteen years until her death in 1861, making [...]
The tower of San Niccolò is in piazza Poggi. The gate, that has been isolated from the city walls, was erected in 1324 to defend the Oltarno quarter. It is the only tower in Florence that has not been [...]
With its immense artistic legacy, the Uffizi Gallery, now The Uffizi, is one of the most important museums in the world. Following a substantial reorganization in the 17th century, which led to the [...]
The Treasure of the Grand Dukes (formerly known as the Silver Museum) occupies the sumptuous frescoed rooms of the Summer Apartment of the Medici and Lorraine Grand Dukes, located on the ground floor [...]
Literally "towering" over Florence, the 95 mt. high Tower of Palazzo Vecchio is one of the city's unmistakable symbols and focal points. It is also one of the oldest parts of the building built [...]
On June 23, 1288 Folco Portinari, the father of Beatrice, the woman who inspired the poetry of Dante, donated the land in Florence upon which the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital was to be built. It is an [...]
